Press releases 2007

- Number of employed persons 28,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 69.1 per cent - Unemployment rate 6.1 per cent,
161,000 unemployed - 37,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to November 2007, average number of employed
50,000 higher than one year earlier

Women's average age in Finland is 42 and men's 39. According to
statistics, their life expectancies at that stage are nearly equal
at 41.7 years for women and 38.5 years for men. On the average, a
woman in Finland enters her first marriage at the age of 30 and a
man at the age of 32. A woman has her first child at the age of 28.
The average family with children has 1.8 children.

- Number of employed persons 83,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 69,8 per cent - Unemployment rate 6.2 per cent,
164,000 unemployed - 44,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to October 2007, average number of employed
52,000 higher than one year earlier

- Number of employed persons 34,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 69.3 per cent - Unemployment rate 6.4 per cent,
168,000 unemployed - 43,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to September 2007, average number of employed
48,000 higher than one year earlier

The Eino H. Laurila national income medal for 2007 has been
granted to Professor Matti Pohjola and MPolSc Jukka Jalava. Pohjola
and Jalava have co-operated actively in national and international
economic research, and been initiators of improvements to the
content and usability of national accounts.

- Number of employed persons 52,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 71.5 per cent - Unemployment rate 5.9 per cent,
162,000 unemployed - 49,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to August 2007, average number of employed
51,000 higher than one year earlier

- Number of employed persons 55,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 72.9 per cent - Unemployment rate 5.9 per cent,
161,000 unemployed - 32,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to July 2007, average number of employed
50,000 higher than one year earlier

- Number of employed persons 60,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 73.5 per cent - Unemployment rate 7.4 per cent,
209,000 unemployed - 37,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to June 2007, average number of employed
49,000 higher than one year earlier

- Number of employed persons 60,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 70.2 per cent - Unemployment rate 8.5 per cent,
232,000 unemployed - 47,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to May 2007, average number of employed 47,000
higher than during the same period of 2006

According to Statistics Finland's report Everyday Use of ICT in
Finland 2006, more than three million persons aged between 15 and
74 used the Internet in spring 2006. Twenty-three per cent of Finns
did not use the Internet at all. The proportion of Internet users
is still clearly smaller in the oldest age groups than in the
younger age groups. Of the different Internet uses, the reading of
online newspapers, Internet phone calls, instant messaging, online
banking and online shopping have increased the most. Six in ten
Internet users reported reading online newspapers.

- Number of employed persons 72,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 69.2 per cent - Unemployment rate 7.2 per cent,
191,000 unemployed - 44,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In January to April 2007, average number of employed
44,000 higher than during the same period of 2006

- Number of employed persons 51,000 higher than one year earlier
- Employment rate 68.7 per cent - Unemployment rate 7.7 per cent,
203,000 unemployed - 60,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - During the first quarter of 2007, number of employed
persons 34,000 higher than one year before

Statistics Finland has made the following appointments for a
Director of IT-management and the Directors of the Population
Statistics, Social Statistics, Prices and Wages Statistics and
Economic Statistics Departments:

According to Statistics Finland's election analysis, support for
the Coalition Party did not just grow in the strong areas of the
Centre Party and the Social Democratic Party, but the party
received steady support in different voting districts.

According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, the volume
of Finland's gross domestic product grew by 5.5 per cent in 2006.
Gross domestic product, or the totalled up value added of the goods
and services produced amounted to EUR 168 billion last year.

- Number of employed persons 27,000 higher than one year before
- Employment rate 67.1 per cent - Number of unemployed persons
31,000 lower than one year before - Unemployment rate 7.6 per cent,
195,000 unemployed - 57,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices

Mr Kari Lehto, Licentiate of Philosophy, has been appointed
Director of IT Services in the IT and Statistical Methods
Department for a five year term starting on 1 April 2007. Prior to
this appointment Mr Lehto held the position of IT Manager at the
Finnish Forest Research Institute.

- Number of employed persons 59,000 higher than one year before
- Employment rate 69.1 per cent - Number of unemployed persons
31,000 lower than one year before - Unemployment rate 6.4 per cent,
168,000 unemployed - 30,000 new vacancies at labour exchange
offices - In 2006, average number of employed 43,000 higher than in
2005 - Unemployment rate 7.7 per cent in 2006